Baker pushed for change, working with the most prominent organizations of the time. There are people who worked tirelessly for the cause of civil rights, and their names are familiar to us all. Then, ...

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press, 2003, 544 pages, $34.95. ALTHOUGH ELLA Baker was a founding member some of ...

(RNS) — The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders. But there were so many women, both behind the scenes and on the front lines, who shaped the ...

There are people who worked tirelessly for the cause of civil rights, and their names are familiar to us all. Then, there was Ella Jo Baker, often referred to as the backbone of the civil rights ...